Original upload date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:23:34 GMT
Recorded in the Corn Exchange, Bedford back in March 1944 when the BBC Symphony Orchestra were depleted of young men and weary from traversing war torn Britain, this is the wonderful viola solo from
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an electrifying performance of Elgar's In The South Overture. It is available, with an outstanding Second Symphony recorded in Bedford the following August and October, on Beulah 5PD15 Boult's Elgar. Buy it at all good record stores on line at http://boult.eavb.co.uk or as a download at iTunes.
Images of the beach by Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire were shot on a freezing December 26th 2008. There are miles of this wonderfully unspoiled coastline in Lincolnshire. Anderby Creek was renowned for smugglers bringing Dutch gin and other spirits across the North Sea. For a short while in 1764-5 Tom Paine, the man who gave the USA its name and invented the tubular steel suspension bridge, was the local excise rider keeping smugglers at bay. He lodged in room 105 at the Windmill Hotel in nearby Alford. The Hotel and the room is still in business. Nothing changes much in Lincolnshire.
